Today on the Presidential Campaign Trail - AP

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IN THE HEADLINES

Obama denies assuring Canada on NAFTA ... Clinton suggests she'll push on past Tuesday's primaries ... Obama restates he made mistake involving Chicago businessman in his real estate deal ... Delegate math could cloud Democratic results Tuesday ... Five-year-old Iraq war expected to affect Ohio, Texas votes and general election ...

Obama denies assuring Canada on NAFTA, despite memo

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Barack Obama said Monday that his campaign never gave Canada back-channel assurances that his harsh words about the North American Free Trade Agreement were for political show — despite the disclosure of a Canadian memo indicating otherwise.

According to the memo obtained by The Associated Press, Obama's senior economic adviser told Canadian officials in Chicago that the debate over free trade in the Democratic presidential primary campaign was "political positioning" and that Obama was not really protectionist.

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Asked why he had appeared to deny a report last week that such a meeting had taken place, Obama said: "That was the information I had at the time."


Clinton says she's pushing ahead

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Monday she'll press on with the campaign after Tuesday's crucial primaries, arguing that momentum is on her side despite 11 straight losses to rival Barack Obama.

"I'm just getting warmed up," Clinton told reporters, looking ahead to a busy day of campaign events in Ohio and Texas where polls show a close race.

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Obama pushes away from indicted donor

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama on Monday reiterated the steps he has taken to separate himself from longtime donor Antoin "Tony" Rezko, as jury selection began in the Chicago businessman's political corruption trial.

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Delegate math could cloud results

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tuesday's contests could go a long way toward determining both nominees for president — once the delegates are calculated. But for the Democrats, that could get complicated.

Barack Obama goes into the contests with a 110-delegate lead over Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to the latest Associated Press tally.

There are 370 Democratic delegates at stake in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont, but the party's system of awarding delegates proportionally will make it tough for either candidate to post big gains.

In the overall race for the Democratic nomination, Obama leads with 1,386 delegates, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as superdelegates. Clinton has 1,276.

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Iraq casts shadow on Ohio, Texas votes

McCONNELSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Two big states holding presidential primaries Tuesday have something more tragic in common — high numbers of military casualties in Iraq.

Combined, Ohio and Texas have sustained roughly one-eighth of all U.S. troop deaths in a war that's certain to shape the general election as candidates with two vastly different approaches — stay or go — compete for votes in communities that have been personally touched by the conflict that began with a U.S.-led invasion five years ago this month.

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That is a really intersting stat about the war and those two states.

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